Software Endorsements

[part time friend]

Since the trannys in America are blocking the farms for the Ameribros I had to go find a VPN. If anyone is looking for a cheap private VPN look at Mullvad. No email needed, $5 a month. Works on windows and Android, no experience with iOS. Been great so far.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Since the trannys in America are blocking the farms for the Ameribros I had to go find a VPN. If anyone is looking for a cheap private VPN look at Mullvad. No email needed, $5 a month. Works on windows and Android, no experience with iOS. Been great so far.

Mullvad is good, it translates to "mole" as in the animal. If you are really paranoid, or live in the UK, they even take money in envelopes as payment.

 

[Druveer]

Gave Mullvad a shot, thanks for the advice I like it. It also lets you use older clients if your not on windows 10/11.

 

[glow]

Mullvad is good, it translates to "mole" as in the animal. If you are really paranoid, or live in the UK, they even take money in envelopes as payment.

They also accept many cryptos including xmr and your only authentication info is a randomly assigned number, they don't even ask for your email address. Of course, this means there is no 'forgot password' feature so don't forget it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

They also accept many cryptos including xmr and your only authentication info is a randomly assigned number, they don't even ask for your email address. Of course, this means there is no 'forgot password' feature so don't forget it.

That ties into the postal option, generate a user number, write it on a piece of paper and mail it with the money and it will be up and running after they get it. Sketchy or not(they deliver their service) or glow op honey pot? I don't know, but they're not flooding youtube with paid advertising. I'm not sure if that's good or not, if you desire to be invisible it is good to be able to melt into a huge crowd of users.

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

no experience with iOS

the iOS version seems to work good too, it is wireguard only however, if you need openvpn support download the ios ovpn client and add a connection manually

That ties into the postal option, generate a user number, write it on a piece of paper and mail it with the money and it will be up and running after they get it. Sketchy or not(they deliver their service) or glow op honey pot?

I mailed mullvad a years worth of AUD, no sender address on the envelope, sent with international stamps i didnt buy, seems fine to me. took 2 weeks on the dot for the money to be shipped and put in my account

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

This is to people looking for ways to post into the forum.
I just starting using Whonix. Whonix is a virtualized, hardened version of debian that uses a completely separate gateway (Contained in another virtual machine) in order to access the internet that parses everything through TOR, effectively anonymizing all traffic and running everything on ram if you desire to do so. Despite having an install guide consisting of about 30+ pages of, quite frankly, fucking useless bullshit if you know the very basics of kvm and terminal usage (Why are devs like this?) I got everything up and running in about 10 minutes.

The only real complaint that I have with it is that the gateway virtual machine will fail to update properly the first time if you give it less than 1gb of RAM due to a really old bug that makes linux freeze occasionally while configuring locales at 512MB of RAM or less.

I highly recommend it but I don't recommend it if you don't have at the very least a quad core with 2 logical processors per core (meaning 8 threads in total) and 16 GB of RAM as it can be rather intensive to run on RAM alone. Also, the internet speed is garbage, but given you are clogging the only pipe out of the system through a TOR gateway that's to be expected.

 

[moocow]

This is to people looking for ways to post into the forum.
I just starting using Whonix. Whonix is a virtualized, hardened version of debian that uses a completely separate gateway (Contained in another virtual machine) in order to access the internet that parses everything through TOR, effectively anonymizing all traffic and running everything on ram if you desire to do so. Despite having an install guide consisting of about 30+ pages of, quite frankly, fucking useless bullshit if you know the very basics of kvm and terminal usage (Why are devs like this?) I got everything up and running in about 10 minutes.

The only real complaint that I have with it is that the gateway virtual machine will fail to update properly the first time if you give it less than 1gb of RAM due to a really old bug that makes linux freeze occasionally while configuring locales at 512MB of RAM or less.

I highly recommend it but I don't recommend it if you don't have at the very least a quad core with 2 logical processors per core (meaning 8 threads in total) and 16 GB of RAM as it can be rather intensive to run on RAM alone. Also, the internet speed is garbage, but given you are clogging the only pipe out of the system through a TOR gateway that's to be expected.

Qubes OS does this much better.

 

[A Cat in a Minefield]

I'm using Orbot as my VPN on my phone, but I experience connection problems from time to time. If I try to route it through the US or Switzerland I can't connect to Kiwi Farms but if i route it through Germany I am funnily able to connect. The same when I select global as an option. I also seem to have problems posting on the farms when I have the VPN activated. Any one have an idea why that is?

 

[Mister Uno]

If you still main Wangblows or have it on another drive like me, I am going to shill this since I've yet to see it mentioned.
Bulk Crap Uninstaller is as the name implies, an uninstaller. Much better compared to the default way to do it on Microsoft since it intelligently scans leftover files associated with whatever you need gone, and asks if you want to delete them. Can uninstall multiple programs at once to, including some programs that came with the Windows install. Been using it for years with zero issues.

 

[Ahriman]

Pretty good and noob-friendly FFmpeg guide.

FFmpeg - Ultimate Guide | IMG.LY Blog

This guide covers the ins and outs of FFmpeg starting with fundamental concepts and moving to media transcoding and video and audio processing providing practical examples along the way.

img.ly

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

With the upcoming shutdown of anontier.nl, does anybody have any recommendations for other homeservers that follows the same/similar principles of privacy and anti-censorship? Preferably ones that aren't hosted on some randos AWS free-tier instance and aren't slow as fuck

I don't recommend it if you don't have at the very least a quad core with 2 logical processors per core (meaning 8 threads in total)

You could've just said 8 threads, we would have known what you meant

 

[BONE_Buddy]

The Dragon Nuance voice software is actually pretty good. I am actually using it right now to dictate. The real problem is cost, that being $500 for the Professional Edition.

So if you happen find a copy of it on the floor somewhere, or see where it has fallen off the back of truck, then I personally recommend its usage. The voice accuracy is pretty decent, and its voice training system seems to work.

However it is not compatible with Brave Browser. I may have to try Firefox, I hear it has an add-on which works with the voice control.

At least it doesn't seem to data mine as hard as Google or Apple nor any of these free dictation software packages.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

You could've just said 8 threads, we would have known what you meant

Old habits die hard.

 

[Ike Aim]

Qubes OS does this much better.

Agreed. Qubes on a Thinkpad X230 with maxed-out RAM makes a neat little shitposting laptop.

 

[Das Kätzchen]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, or whether this extension is well known around here, but it's worth sharing nonetheless.

Of all the blights and inconveniences on the Internet, captchas sure are one of them. So, here's a browser extension called buster that could help to deal with them.

GitHub - dessant/buster: Captcha solver extension for humans

Captcha solver extension for humans. Contribute to dessant/buster development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

It helped me a ton and it might help you, too.

With all the hate you seem to have towards captchas, @Null , I'd be surprised if you don't have it installed already.

 

[anustart76]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, or whether this extension is well known around here, but it's worth sharing nonetheless.

Of all the blights and inconveniences on the Internet, captchas sure are one of them. So, here's a browser extension called buster that could help to deal with them.

GitHub - dessant/buster: Captcha solver extension for humans

Captcha solver extension for humans. Contribute to dessant/buster development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

It helped me a ton and it might help you, too.

With all the hate you seem to have towards captchas, @Null , I'd be surprised if you don't have it installed already.

I used to use it, but then Google started giving me the "you look like a bot, you have to do the regular captcha" bullshit

 

[HRT Heisenberg]

Some newfag woes here but I'm looking for a reliable recovery email for my account in case something goes wrong on the site again. The one I am currently using is a free service that deletes inactive emails which is obviously a problem if I just don't check the email for 6 months. I was thinking of using a protonmail alias linked to my actual account which would be fine from a mail address privacy perspective but if protonmail decides to go all political (as they've done in the past) then I'm obviously fucked if they see an incoming kiwifarms.net email or the alias is leaked then they link it to my account and delete me.

I know it's probably best to not tie my kiwi account in any way to me and as such will probably just use lolcow.email once registration opens for that. But in case that doesn't happen are any kiwis using protonmail for their recovery? If so have there been any deletion/problems (I also heard they can delete inactive free accounts after 3 months). If my idea is really stupid are there any services that won't have a deletion problem?

 

[Cowboy Kim]

Some newfag woes here but I'm looking for a reliable recovery email for my account in case something goes wrong on the site again. The one I am currently using is a free service that deletes inactive emails which is obviously a problem if I just don't check the email for 6 months. I was thinking of using a protonmail alias linked to my actual account which would be fine from a mail address privacy perspective but if protonmail decides to go all political (as they've done in the past) then I'm obviously fucked if they see an incoming kiwifarms.net email or the alias is leaked then they link it to my account and delete me.

I know it's probably best to not tie my kiwi account in any way to me and as such will probably just use lolcow.email once registration opens for that. But in case that doesn't happen are any kiwis using protonmail for their recovery? If so have there been any deletion/problems (I also heard they can delete inactive free accounts after 3 months). If my idea is really stupid are there any services that won't have a deletion problem?

For what its worth, I had a protonmail account I never signed into for about a year and its still alive, but what do I know.
in terms of providers, Lolcow is literally made for this site, Cockli is in the same vain and seems trustworthy enough if you can get an invite. Tutanota are similar to Protonmail. Disroot also exists.

 

[Null]

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